Nevil Maskelyne (1611 – 30 August 1679) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.
On the death of his father in 1630 he succeeded to an estate at Purton, where branches of the Maskelyne family had owned land since the 15th century.
[1] He avoided involvement in the Civil War, and did not hold any office until the eve of the Restoration.
He was awarded the grant of a weekly market and four fairs a year at Cricklade on 18 March 1662, after he reported that he had seized for the king some property of the regicide Sir John Danvers.
[2] Maskelyne died at the age of about 68 and was buried at Purton;[2] a marble wall monument is inside the church.